This is an improv off of the piece "Riverbank Blues" by Sterling Brown. This is a ballad so the form is abab with iambic tetrameter on the first and third lines and then iambic trimeter with the second and fourth lines. The hope is that I improv the form.
A student acts concordant, yet
they graduate at four
and freedom ensues. Happy, fretless
like birds that fly through clouds
at night when normal sleep, concrete
to inner brainlike workings, loud
on silence, humming: Pete
will eat, will eat tomorrow proud.
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